As Tim had told me everything about his problem. It's up to me whether I should accept his request or not. It wasn't a hard task but it seems like there's nothing for me in return. I shouldn't say that I would do this for free in the first place.
It wasn't that big of a problem like I thought it was. Tim just needed the Flower of Eve to be able to brew some herb for his patient. The problem was, the patient was the earl son. Which was the one that governs Gria Town.
As Tim was a known healer, the earl expected that Tim would be able to heal his son's sickness and if Tim was unable to do it within this month. He would be stripped of his title and forced to shut down his business, worse was Tim would need to leave Gria Town as well.
Tim does manage to find what the earl son's sickness was but realizes that he needs to have the Flower of Eve that could only be obtained in the particular field that both Elina and I walked out from.
"I see but if the requester was from the earl itself, why wouldn't you ask his men to get that flower for you. I'm sure that the earl would lend some of his men to help you."
"That's what I intended to do but sadly the earl was out to the capital. I tried asking his right-hand man but he refused to contact the earl or even lend me some of the town guards."
"How much time do you have left?"
"Only a week left, I waited for a while hoping that the earl would return but he didn't... So that's why I'm desperate right now." Tim paused a bit as he looked at me, "Are you sure that you wanted to help me without wanting any gold?"
Realizing that I'm somewhat short of gold right now. The gifts don't give me any gold at all and knowing that I'm lacking gold, I decided to ask Tim whether he could give me 20 gold coins in exchange I will help to find the Flower of Eve.
"Why? I thought you said you would be doing this for free..."
"Well of course I will be doing it for free, I need 20 gold coins to buy some supplies. Who knows how many days I need to camp in that field."
"I understand but supplies don't cost that much, how about I give you 35 silver coins... That ought to be enough."
I could demand more but I guess that's enough for now. When I return with the Flower of Eve, I'm sure that Tim might give me rewards of some sort even if I do not ask for it. Tim will be grateful to me after all as I have solved his problem.
With that, I agree with Tim's terms and before I leave, I ask Tim to show me what the flower looks like and how I would be able to find it if I don't know how it looks. Tim then searched his rack and gave me an old book.
"What's this?"
"That's an alchemist book, it had the drawing of the flower that you needed to find and could you wait a while... I need to get your silver coin."
Tim then heads upstairs and leaves the both of us here. I look at Elina as she gives me a bright smile.
"Thanks, Yei, I know you would help Tim."
"I just pity him that's all, there's something that I wanted to test out in the field as well."
"When will you head to the field? Will it be tomorrow... "
"Might be, I need to sort out a few things and buy some supplies at the town."
"You're new at this town right, do you want me to show it to you?"
"How? You legs ain't healed yet you know..."
"It would be in a few seconds, Tim just forgot to cast another healing spell on it. So would you wait, I will then show you around town."
If only I had a map feature in my system, I wouldn't be needing Elina at all as I could probably navigate Gria Town all on my own. But as I don't have that feature, I suppose I do need Elina to show me around Gria Town.
"Sure but if it takes some time, I will be heading out first... Can't stand the smell of all of these potions here."
Tim then finally re-enter the room back to which he then handed me a small pouch. He says that it had the right amount of silver coins that he had promised to give me.
"Tim! Could you hurry up and heal me, I need to show Yei around this town."
"She is new here, well I guess that's why I never saw her before," Tim said as he resumed casting the healing spell on Elina's leg.
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After it was all done, Elina stood up and tried to walk around the room to see whether it was completely healed or not. As she does not feel the pain anymore, she thanks Tim and gives him some gold coins but Tim refuses to accept them.
"As I said earlier Elina, this is free and besides you have done a lot for me. You even bring someone that is on level 60 to help me with my problem... So there's no need to pay for your treatment." Tim said.
"Just take it, Tim, it's for cutting the queue up... Let this pay for all of those that have been waiting in the line."
"You're right, the people sure would be angry but at least knowing that their treatment is already paid by you would make that anger away."
With that, both Elina and I left the healer's house. The people that were waiting did give us some dissatisfied look when we walked out of the place. But I guess they would not hate us after knowing what Elina had done to them.
Elina then looked at me with a bright smile on her face, "There's a lot of interesting places here, where do you want to start?"